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[John] Rayner: Greek Grammar
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6338
Scope and Contents
Greek grammar, comprising sections on the alphabet, prosody, etymology, the declension and conjugation of the parts of speech, dialects, and accents, probably written by [John] Rayner, in an ornate copy-book hand, 126 folios. At the top of fo. i is the following, in the hand of H. Travers: 'Traverse è Coll: Regin: Cantab:'. Inside the front cover are extracts from the sales catalogues of two booksellers, in which the book appeared as nos 145 and 118 respectively.
Dates:
1710 (Circa)
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John Redmond: Documents on Irish affairs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8359
Scope and Contents
Photostats of documents regarding Irish affairs, primarily correspondence involving Redmond, the King, the prime minister and other parliamentarians.
Dates:
1914-1918 (Circa (photostats made in 1959))
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John Rennie: Specification for 'a Drain for the Conveyance of Water from Tilney Goole to West Lynn'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.11
Dates:
1819 (Circa (undated))
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John Rennie: Specification for 'a Road Bridge proposed to be erected over Marshland Drain'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.10
Dates:
15 Sept. 1819
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John Rennie: Specification for 'a Sluice proposed to be erected on Marshland Drain'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.9
Dates:
15 Sept. 1819
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John Rennie: Specification for a wooden bridge 'proposed to be built over the Eau Brink Cut near [King's] Lynn'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.8
Dates:
25 Aug. 1819
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John Rennie: Specification of 'a Staunch and Weir to be placed in the River Cam near Bottisham Lode'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.7
Dates:
15 Sept. 1819
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John Riley Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10038
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of bound and unbound poetry and prose, chiefly by Riley; correspondence, chiefly addressed to Riley; and miscellaneous printed and manuscript items. The notebooks include some entries relating to the administration of the Grosseteste Press and Grosseteste Review, and in several places in the collection there are evidences of Riley's creative and business relationship with Tim Longville.
Dates:
1955-1979 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply. Access to documents may be restricted if they contain information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Some correspondence files are closed for specified periods for reasons of confidentiality.
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John Robert Towers: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Towers
Scope and Contents
The collection mainly comprises manuscripts, articles, lectures, notes, correspondence, photographs, slides, postcards and drawings.
Dates:
1936-1961 (Much of the material is undated so dates have been estimated.)
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John Roberts: Copies of his letters to Francis Hindes Groome, scholar of Gypsy life
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8418
Scope and Contents
A typescript copy, made by R.A.S. Macfie of letters written to F.H. Groome with manuscript annotations. There are 201 numbered pages, of which the last 17 are blank. The letters are from John Roberts, with the exception of the final letter, written by Groome's mother-in-law. The script includes early examples of Welsh Romani [Romany], for which there are 'hasty, unstudied translations' made by Macfie in September 1926.
Dates:
1876-1880 (circa. Date of transcript: 1907)
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John Rosselli: Letters to him from Cambridge historians and social scientists
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9314
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Cambridge historians and political scientists. The correspondents are Sir Ernest Barker, Sir Denis W. Brogan, Sir Herbert Butterfield, Denis Mack Smith, and George M. Trevelyan.
Dates:
1948-1976
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Rowe: Notebook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8849
Scope and Contents
Pocket book, 'Riders' British Merlin: bedekt with many delightful varieties, and useful verities.. made and compiled for his country's benefit, by Cardanus Riders, London', 1701, calf bound. The notebook contains mostly notes on religious works, running from the back, but also a few pages of personal and family notes, expenses, distances from Durham of towns to London, and legal notes.
Dates:
1701
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John S. Udal: Antiquarian and genealogical letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8855
Scope and Contents
'Autograph letters upon general antiquarian & literary subjects'. There are 77 letters to John Symonds Udal, arranged alphabetically by author, on antiquarian, genealogical and heraldic subjects, and folklore. These include many letters on Udal's work on monumental inscriptions in St Kitts and Antigua, and colonial families of British origin (especially for Burke's Colonial gentry). There are also letters from the editors of Notes and queries. Udal's bookplate is inside the front...
Dates:
1877-1916
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John Sanders: Diary 1 August - 21 October 1712
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7491
Scope and Contents
Typed copy of an account of the marriage of Dorothy Trotman, daughter of Samuel Trotman of Siston Court, to her cousin Samuel Trotman of Bucknell Manor.
Dates:
1950 (circa)
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John Scarth: Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7084
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript letters, mainly from China.
Dates:
1847- 1858
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John Scott Lennox Gilmour: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8638
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers relating to philosophy, taxonomy and other subjects; material relating to the Rationalist Press Association Ltd, Cambridge Humanists and Hock Club; typescripts of Gilmour's lectures, including the Sandars Lectures; and a box of correspondence regarding 'Deme terminology etc.'
Dates:
1900-1986 (Circa)
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John Seymour Benson Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 364
Scope and Contents
Letters, diaries and photographs.
Dates:
1928 - 1973
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John Shaw: Diaries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10065
Scope and Contents
Some as Cambridge undergraduate
Dates:
1860-1861
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John Smart: Letters from North America
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8663-8664
Scope and Contents
Letters from John Smart in America to his mother, pasted into scrapbooks with additional material, including postcards, photographs, newscuttings and printed items, with comments and explanations by Smart.
Dates:
1932-1953
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John Smyth: Notebook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2640
Scope and Contents
Compiled while an undergraduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Includes (fos 19-28) notes on moral philosophy and (fos 33-108) a digest of the Cartesian system entitled 'Physica Incipientium sive Principia Cartesiana Tyronum Captibus Accommodata'. There are other copies at MSS Dd.6.46, Dd.12.33 and Add.3307. The first of these has the additional title 'Contracta Renati Des Cartesii Feltoneana', which seems to imply the authorship of one Felton, possibly John Felton (d. 1667),...
Dates:
1681
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John Spencer: De Legibus Hebraeorum
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2610
Scope and Contents
Collection of material for a second edition. Not used without alteration in edition of 1727. Preceded by: draft power of attorney granted by the University of Cambridge to Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London, to receive the MS, 7 Jan. 1716 (extracted from Adv.a.44.12 ); extract from will of Thomas Tenison, archbishop of Canterbury, with letter from Edward Tenison to Daniel Waterland, 27 Dec. 1715.
Dates:
1690 (Circa)
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John Sperling: Visitation of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3426
Scope and Contents
Description and blazon of coats of arms in Cambridge churches and colleges, on the conduit in the market place, and in the University Library. Autograph. pp. 243-63: indexes. There are some incomplete additions at pp. 265-73. pp. 274-312: blank. Sperling's bookplate inside front cover.
Dates:
1860
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John Sperling: Visitation of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3427
Scope and Contents
A visitation of Arms on Monuments, Stained Glass etc. in the County of Cambridge. p. ii: author's notes; p. iii: indexes; p. 1: description and blazon of arms by parishes. pp. xxvii, 283: blank. Sperling's bookplate inside front cover.
Dates:
1856-1860
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John Stopford: Arteries of the Pons and the Medulla, proof copy
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9617
Scope and Contents
By Stopford, J. S. B. MD, Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Manchester. Heavily annotated.
Dates:
c. 1916
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John Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh: Sound detection papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8243
Scope and Contents
Papers sent to Lord Rayleigh regarding sound detection in water. 1. R.A.S. Paget, Board of Invention and Research, letter to Rayleigh, 6 October 1915, 1 page, enclosing no. 2. 2. Sir Ernest Rutherford, Manchester University, 'Report on methods of collection of sound from water and the determination of the direction of sound', 30 September 1915, 11 pages. 3. R.A.S. Paget, letter to Rayleigh, 25 October 1915, 2 pages, enclosing no. 4. 4. A. Mallock, 'Experiments on the determination of the...
Dates:
1915-1916
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